Midwest Traveler: Ringing in the new year in Ann Arbor, Mich.Minneapolis Star TribuneEven if you don't make it to the top of the tower (it's one of the city's most recognizable landmarks but it's open fairly infrequently), you can at least enjoy its resonant carillon daily. With 4½ octaves of bells, the largest of which weighs 12 tons ...

NYPD Officer Killed by Gunman Laid to RestTWC News... officers around the country say goodbye to Officer Rafael Ramos on Saturday. Ramos is one of two NYPD officers killed a week ago while on patrol in Brooklyn. Time Warner Cable News reporter Dean Meminger is outside the church in Queens with more.

Dec. 26 shopping not too crazyKearney HubThe holiday decorations were still up, but gone were gift-wrapping stations and bell-ringers. ... At the Cowpoke Mercantile at 7310 Second Ave., Becky Trotter of Arcadia swung in with her family to exchange a blue plaid pearl-snap shirt for a different ...

South Cumbria news review of the year - January to MarchNW Evening MailThe bells of St James's Church in Barrow return home following a £180,000 restoration project. New volunteers come forward to ensure the popular Ulverston Lantern Festival will take place in 2014. The front page of ... Indie band Reverend and the ...

NSU's oldest living graduate reflects on memorable lifeAlexandria Town TalkThose faraway places were a long way from Normal, where students ate in a common dining room, slept on sleeping porches and were called to rise in the morning, take meals and go to class with the ringing of the plantation bell. She remembered Normal ...

Church NewsBrazil TimesWe were pleasantly surprised with a Christmas medley by the younger children playing "Christmas Of The Bells"; each ringing their bells at the right moment for the music. Well done kids, we enjoyed ... Also every Tuesday evening, a young women's bible ...

Benefit: The Tradition Continues for Christmas at the RitzNewport Beach Independent NewspaperThe luncheon, which raised more than $223,000, was atendeed by over 400 Chapman supporters, and featured greetings from Dr. Jim Doti (Chapman University President) and Santa Claus, a quartet of Dickens carolers and bell ringers, a champagne and ...

Blood Rhythms, Ono, Neil Jendon, VertonenChicago ReaderRecorded in a meat locker on three MiniDisc machines, their improvisations include blowing through a 15-foot pipe and placing the bells of their horns against the metal walls. The album starts out approximating something that a giant ... The other side ...

Christmas Eve Services Bring Out True Meaning of ChristmasTWC News"What we've been trying to help our people understand is, Christmas is a celebration of hope," says Pastor Jonathan Robbins of Summit Church. Lead pastor at the Summit Church is reminding people now to reflect on the meaning of Christmas. "I could sum ...

City Sidewalks, Busy SidewalksPhilly.comThe Blue Bell lawyer has come a long way since taking Betty out on their first date to a Roxborough-area carnival so grubby he still remembers being mortified. He shops ... At midday, the historic sanctuary at Christ Church in Old City was a calm ...

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